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The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

AL QAEDA: A link to a new audio recording from al Qaeda second-in-command
Ayman al-Zawahiri was posted on jihadist Web sites. Al Qaeda media branch
As-Sahab produced the five-and-a-half-minute message, titled "Rise up and
Support Your Brothers in Somalia." The message urges Muslims, particularly
in the Middle East and North Africa, to provide manpower and funding in
support of an Islamist insurgency in Somalia. Al-Zawahiri also directly
encourages Somalian militants, citing actions against the United States in
Somalia in the 1990s and in Iraq and Afghanistan. He specifically
encourages Egyptian Islamic Group members to conduct jihad.

UNITED STATES: U.S. President George W. Bush named retired Vice Adm. Mike
McConnell the national intelligence director. McConnell will take over for
John Negroponte, who will become the deputy secretary of state.

IRAQ: A demonstration against the hanging of former Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein took place in Amman, Jordan. Hussein had been convicted of crimes
against humanity. Opposition groups, including Baathists, nationalists and
Islamists, organized the demonstration, which 3,000 people attended.

PHILIPPINES: Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand posted
advisories warning travelers of a possible militant attack in the
Philippine islands of Mindanao and Cebu. The alerts, which followed a
warning issued by Canada, come as the Philippine government is set to host
the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Cebu on Jan.
10-15.

INDIA: Police in Bangalore, India, arrested a suspected Kashmiri militant
as he arrived on a private bus carrying an assault rifle, 300 rounds of
ammunition, AK-47 magazines, hand grenades, a satellite phone and SIM
cards in his luggage. The suspect also carried a map of Bangalore with the
airport and the Infosys campus marked, and is believed to have been
planning attacks in the city with at least one accomplice.

SRI LANKA: A bomb exploded on a bus in the western Sri Lanka town of
Nittambuwa during rush hour. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels are
believed to be responsible the blast. At least five people were killed and
30 more were wounded.

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